Hamza Shehbaz, the son of Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, on Saturday took oath because the chief minister of Punjab province, a day after he was re-elected to the submit by simply three votes amidst excessive drama when the deputy speaker rejected 10 essential votes of his rival candidate.
Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman administered the oath to Hamza, 47. The oath-taking ceremony was held on the Governor Home in Punjab.
The run-off election for the submit of Punjab chief minister was held within the Punjab Meeting on Friday, in step with the directions of the Supreme Court docket of Pakistan.
Hamza was declared the winner within the election although his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) social gathering didn’t have a majority within the Meeting after key by-elections held on July 17.
Hamza managed to retain the submit of Punjab province Chief Minister by the barest of margins after Deputy Speaker Dost Muhammad Mazari rejected 10 votes of his rival candidate Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi’s social gathering Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q), an ally of ousted prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), citing Article 63-A of the Structure.
Within the 368-member Punjab Meeting, Hamza’s social gathering Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) obtained 179 votes, whereas Elahi’s social gathering garnered 176 votes.
Ten votes of Elahi’s PML-Q weren’t counted on the pretext that that they had violated the orders of their social gathering chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain.
Mazari stated that as social gathering chief Hussain’s instruction to PML-Q members to vote for Hamza as an alternative of Elahi held better sway.
“I give a ruling to reject 10 votes of PML-Q as its chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has written me a letter declaring that his social gathering lawmakers mustn’t vote for the PTI-PMLQ candidate. I had spoken to Shujaat by telephone and he confirmed that it’s his letter,” Mazari stated, including that Hamza had retained the spot of Punjab province Chief Minister by three votes.
The PTI-PMLQ lawmakers protested the ruling of the deputy speaker.
It’s the second time that Hamza beat Elahi within the contest for the Punjab Chief Minister. The final time he had secured victory on April 16, his oath-taking had been delayed for days with then then-governor, Omar Sarfaraz Cheema, refusing to manage the oath to him.
Finally, Nationwide Meeting Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf administered the oath to him on April 30, following the Lahore Excessive Court docket’s directives.
Following Mazari’s resolution to ignore the ten votes of PML-Q members — a transfer that allowed Hamza to retain his submit because the chief minister of Punjab — PTI stated that it will method the Supreme Court docket to problem the choice.
Elahi stated he would problem this resolution within the Supreme Court docket because the deputy speaker violated the court docket’s order.
Earlier, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) social gathering chairman Khan had warned that if the state equipment used to steal public mandate it’ll lead the nation to a Sri Lanka-like state of affairs.
“If the state equipment is used to steal public mandate the response of the plenty will lead Pakistan to a Sri Lanka-like state of affairs? I will be unable to regulate individuals in such a situation,” Khan stated.
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz stated what her social gathering did on Friday was a tit-for-tat response to Khan’s social gathering.
“PML-N has not forgotten the therapy meted out to them. Now the principles of the sport would be the identical for everybody, else PML-N is aware of learn how to play it higher,” Maryam stated in a tweet.
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